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World |
203,407,745 |
+473,253 |
4,307,073 |
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36,543,338 |
+24,390 |
633,116 |
|
|
31,969,588 |
+36,035 |
428,339 |
|
|
20,165,672 |
+13,893 |
563,470 |
|
|
6,447,750 |
+22,866 |
164,881 |
|
|
6,305,158 |
+20,450 |
112,220 |
|
|
6,069,362 |
+27,429 |
130,320 |
|
|
5,918,540 |
+22,699 |
52,196 |
|
|
5,018,895 |
+6,141 |
107,459 |
|
|
4,838,984 |
+4,350 |
122,458 |
|
|
4,588,132 |
+21561 |
82,006 |
|
|
4,396,417 |
+5,735 |
128,220 |
|
|
4,158,729 |
+39,619 |
94,015 |
|
|
3,797,836 |
+2,246 |
92,281 |
|
|
3,666,031 |
+26,415 |
107,096 |
|
|
2,964,244 |
+20,018 |
244,248 |
|
|
2,884,098 |
+122 |
75,285 |
|
|
2,533,466 |
+9,978 |
74,813 |
|
|
2,259,151 |
+619 |
53,095 |
|
|
2,125,345 |
+1,217 |
196,950 |
|
|
1,885,805 |
+2,292 |
17,869 |
|
|
1,712,709 |
+8,346 |
19,203 |
|
|
1,674,907 |
+153 |
30,363 |
|
|
1,658,916 |
+9,671 |
29,122 |
|
|
1,623,363 |
+854 |
36,016 |
|
|
1,438,743 |
+524 |
26,669 |
|
|
1,353,695 |
+10,299 |
22,652 |
|
|
1,262,540 |
+18,688 |
10,749 |
|
|
1,084,919 |
+208 |
34,316 |
|
|
1,067,580 |
+4,455 |
23,865 |
|
|
1,016,781 |
+15,753 |
15,273 |
|
|
986,967 |
+1,982 |
17,467 |
|
|
900,482 |
+3,156 |
6,542 |
|
|
777,164 |
+986 |
10,127 |
|
|
756,505 |
+19,983 |
6,204 |
|
|
725,702 |
+457 |
7,139 |
|
|
714,877 |
+2,137 |
10,093 |
|
|
696,282 |
+8,990 |
10,335 |
|
|
692,964 |
+1,410 |
1,975 |
|
|
663,082 |
+553 |
10,750 |
|
|
634,214 |
+7,802 |
6,764 |
|
|
610,660 |
+2,546 |
20,931 |
|
|
571,650 |
+1,552 |
7,943 |
|
|
533,516 |
+731 |
8,334 |
|
|
514,192 |
+1,850 |
13,048 |
|
|
477,696 |
+434 |
17,971 |
|
|
458,219 |
+9,427 |
3,438 |
|
|
455,120 |
+255 |
15,293 |
|
|
453,932 |
+979 |
3,532 |
|
|
447,913 |
+3,344 |
6,084 |
|
|
442,295 |
+979 |
6,906 |
|
|
428,049 |
+176 |
18,255 |
|
|
403,349 |
+555 |
2,369 |
|
|
393,040 |
+33 |
12,541 |
|
|
390,514 |
+1,004 |
10,771 |
|
|
382,506 |
+146 |
5,986 |
|
|
365,045 |
+213 |
8,272 |
|
|
351,825 |
+1,220 |
5,063 |
|
|
329,994 |
+2,956 |
5,111 |
|
|
329,516 |
+3,027 |
11,776 |
|
|
323,786 |
+821 |
2,552 |
|
|
317,999 |
+296 |
3,613 |
|
|
312,931 |
+816 |
3,705 |
|
|
312,465 |
+1,837 |
5,044 |
|
|
298,706 |
+202 |
3,936 |
|
|
286,121 |
+385 |
4,427 |
|
|
284,706 |
+65 |
16,575 |
|
|
284,091 |
+424 |
4,426 |
|
|
270,060 |
+111 |
1,384 |
|
|
267,846 |
+3,019 |
3,719 |
|
|
260,630 |
+75 |
6,282 |
|
|
260,109 |
+68 |
4,433 |
|
|
232,157 |
+234 |
4,650 |
|
|
227,689 |
+217 |
601 |
|
|
211,828 |
+800 |
4,149 |
|
|
210,956 |
+1,728 |
2,121 |
|
|
210,405 |
+9,690 |
3,397 |
|
|
200,049 |
+387 |
3,484 |
|
|
181,376 |
+1,020 |
4,550 |
|
|
178,086 |
+471 |
2,187 |
|
|
173,532 |
+1,463 |
852 |
|
|
169,017 |
+602 |
2,399 |
|
|
140,836 |
+370 |
804 |
|
|
139,421 |
+74 |
2,559 |
|
|
136,635 |
+897 |
928 |
|
|
135,076 |
+126 |
1,277 |
|
|
133,912 |
+182 |
2,459 |
|
|
132,452 |
+653 |
1,613 |
|
|
121,043 |
+229 |
3,191 |
|
|
116,327 |
+437 |
3,900 |
|
|
112,207 |
+1,322 |
984 |
|
|
108,226 |
+1,476 |
874 |
|
|
105,982 |
+389 |
441 |
|
|
103,722 |
+279 |
1,635 |
|
|
95,723 |
+249 |
2,793 |
|
|
93,701 |
+96 |
4,636 |
|
|
26,002 |
+85 |
665 |
|
|
12,455 |
+84 |
111 |
Retrieved from：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
By Julie Steenhuysen
A man wearing a protective face mask walks past an illustration of a virus outside a regional science centre amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Oldham, Britain August 3, 2020. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo
The continued spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spawned a Greek alphabet of variants - a naming system used by the World Health Organization to track concerning new mutations of the virus that causes COVID-19. Some have equipped the virus with better ways of infecting humans or evading vaccine protection.
Scientists remain focused on Delta, now the dominant variant rising rapidly around the world, but are tracking others to see what may one day take its place.
DELTA
The Delta variant first detected in India remains the most worrisome. It is striking unvaccinated populations in many countries and has proven capable of infecting a higher proportion of vaccinated people than its predecessors.
The WHO classifies Delta as a variant of concern, meaning it has been shown capable of increasing transmissibility, causing more severe disease or reducing the benefit of vaccines and treatments.
According to Shane Crotty, a virologist at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in San Diego, Delta's "superpower" is its transmissibility. Chinese researchers found that people infected with Delta carry 1,260 times more virus in their noses compared with the original version of the coronavirus. Some U.S. research suggests that the "viral load" in vaccinated individuals who become infected with Delta is on par with those who are unvaccinated, but more research is needed.
While the original coronavirus took up to seven days to cause symptoms, Delta can cause symptoms two to three days faster, giving the immune system less time to respond and mount a defense. Delta also appears to be mutating further, with reports emerging of a "Delta Plus" variant, a sub-lineage that carries an additional mutation that has been shown to evade immune protection.
India listed Delta Plus as a variant of concern in June, but neither the U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention nor the WHO have done so yet. According to Outbreak.info, an open-source COVID-19 database, Delta Plus has been detected in at least 32 countries. Experts say it is not yet clear whether it is more dangerous.
LAMBDA – ON THE WANE?
The Lambda variant has attracted attention as a potential new threat. But this version of the coronavirus, first identified in Peru in December, may be receding, several infectious disease experts told Reuters.
The WHO classifies Lambda as a variant of interest, meaning it carries mutations suspected of causing a change in transmissibility or causing more severe disease, but it is still under investigation. Lab studies show it has mutations that resist vaccine-induced antibodies.
Dr. Eric Topol, a professor of molecular medicine and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, California, said the percentage of new Lambda cases reported to GISAID, a database that tracks SARS-CoV-2 variants, has been dropping, a sign that the variant is waning.
In a recent call with the CDC, disease experts said Lambda did not appear to be causing increased transmissibility, and vaccines appear to be holding up well against it, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who attended the discussion.
B.1.621 - ONE TO WATCH
The B.1.621 variant, which first arose in Colombia in January, where it caused a major outbreak, has yet to earn a Greek letter name.
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control has listed it as a variant of interest, while Public Health England describes B.1.621 as a variant under investigation. It carries several key mutations, including E484K, N501Y and D614G, that have been linked with increased transmissibility and reduced immune protection. So far, there have been 37 likely and confirmed cases in the UK, according to a recent government report, and the variant has been identified in a number of patients in Florida.
MORE ON THE WAY?
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House's chief medical adviser, recently warned that the United States could be in trouble unless more Americans get vaccinated, as a large pool of unvaccinated people give the virus more opportunity to spread and mutate into new variants.
Proponents of greater international distribution of vaccine doses by rich countries say the same thing could happen as variants emerge unchecked among the populations of poor nations where very few people have been inoculated.
Even so, a key issue is that the current vaccines block severe disease but do not prevent infection, said Dr. Gregory Poland, a vaccine scientist at the Mayo Clinic. That is because the virus is still capable of replicating in the nose, even among vaccinated people, who can then transmit the disease through tiny, aerosolized droplets.
To defeat SARS-CoV-2, he said, will likely require a new generation of vaccines that also block transmission. Until then, the world will remain vulnerable to the rise of new coronavirus variants, according to Poland and other experts.
Retrieved from：https://www.reuters.com/world/india/beyond-delta-scientists-are-watching-new-coronavirus-variants-2021-08-08/
By Renju JoseColin Packham
A lone cyclist rides through the empty Martin Place in the city centre during a lockdown to curb the spread of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Sydney, Australia, July 28, 2021. REUTERS/Loren Elliott
Australia's most populous state of New South Wales expanded its COVID-19 lockdown to the rural town of Tamworth on Monday due to concerns the virus may have spread from Sydney into the countryside.
State Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the lockdown of the farming town after people known to have COVID-19 travelled from Sydney to Tamworth, about 414 km (257 miles) to the northwest, without authorisation.
"As a precaution, the health experts have recommended we lock down Tamworth for one week," Berejiklian told reporters in Sydney.
Officials also urged people in the Byron Bay area to get tested after a man travelled from Sydney, the epicentre of the state's outbreak, to the tourist spot about 767 km to the north.
New South Wales reported 283 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, up from 262 cases a day earlier.
The state has struggled to contain a surge of the highly infectious Delta variant despite a lockdown of Sydney now in its seventh week.
Neighbouring Victoria state said it would ease restrictions after reporting 11 new COVID-19 cases, the same as the previous day.
The majority of the new cases spent time in the community while infectious, but state Premier Daniel Andrews said the lockdown of regional Victoria would lift later on Monday.
Victoria capital Melbourne would remain in lockdown - the sixth since the pandemic begun - until at least Aug. 12.
In Brisbane, capital of Queensland state, authorities reported four new local cases on Monday, the first day after the city came out of stay-home restrictions.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is under fire for the sluggish vaccine rollout, with only 22% of Australians above 16 years of age fully vaccinated.
An opinion poll by The Australian newspaper showed his public approval rating had hit its lowest level since the pandemic began.
Morrison enjoyed high ratings early last year after Australia managed to keep its pandemic numbers relatively low. It has so far reported around 36,250 cases and 939 deaths, including a women in her 90s whose death in Sydney was reported on Monday.
The extended lockdown of Sydney, Australia's most populous city, would drive the country's A$2 trillion ($1.5 trillion) economy into negative growth this quarter, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said last month.
Neighbouring New Zealand, which has not seen a community case since February, said on Monday that 11 of the 21 crew aboard container ship Rio De La Plata off the country's north coast have tested positive for COVID-19.
As a precaution 94 port workers who spent time on the vessel while it was in port are being contacted and stood down until a negative test result is returned.
Retrieved from：https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-victoria-reports-11-locally-acquired-covid-19-cases-2021-08-08/
People are seen at a crowded market amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India, July 28, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
India reported 39,070 new cases of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the federal health ministry said on Sunday, taking its tally to 31.93 million cases.
Deaths rose by 491, taking total fatalities to 427,862.
Retrieved from：https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-reports-39070-new-coronavirus-cases-last-24-hours-2021-08-08/
By Pam Belluck
Sierra Trudeau and her mother, Heather, speak with Dr. Jane Newburger, a pediatric cardiology specialist, at Boston Children’s Hospital in May.Credit...Maddie Malhotra for The New York Times
Will Grogan stared blankly at his ninth-grade biology assignment. It was work he had mastered in class the day before, but now it looked utterly unfamiliar.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he blurted to his teacher and classmates, who reminded him how adeptly he’d answered questions about the topic the previous class. “I’ve never seen this before,” he insisted, becoming so distressed that the teacher excused him to visit the school nurse.
The episode, earlier this year, is one of numerous cognitive mix-ups that have plagued Will, 15, since he contracted Covid-19 in October, along with issues like fatigue, aching legs and dizziness. As young people across the United States prepare to return to school, many are struggling to recover from lingering post-Covid neurological, physical or psychiatric symptoms.
Often called “long Covid,” the symptoms and their duration vary from patient to patient, as does the severity. Studies estimate long Covid may affect 10 percent to 30 percent of adults infected with the coronavirus. Estimates from the handful of studies of children so far range widely.
Pediatric Covid cases have risen sharply, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant and the fact that well under half of 12- to 17-year-olds are vaccinated and children under 12 are still ineligible.
Doctors say even children with mild or asymptomatic initial infections may experience long Covid: confounding, sometimes debilitating issues that disrupt their schooling, sleep, extracurricular activities and overall life.
“The potential impact is huge,” said Dr. Avindra Nath, chief of infections of the nervous system at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. “I mean, they’re in their formative years. Once you start falling behind, it’s very hard because the kids lose their own self-confidence too. It’s a downward spiral.”
Authorities in Wuhan said they had completed citywide testing of more than 11 million people for Covid-19 on Sunday, after a resurgence of cases more than a year after the coronavirus first emerged there, AFP reports.
The tests – which began on Tuesday – provide “basically full coverage” of all residents in the city except for children under the age of six and students on their summer break, senior Wuhan official Li Tao told a press conference, according to the state-run Xinhua.
By Saturday, the city had recorded 37 locally transmitted cases and found 41 local asymptomatic carriers in the latest round of mass testing, Xinhua reported.
Sunday’s 125 new confirmed infections on the mainland included 94 locally transmitted cases, up from the previous day’s figure of 96, with 81 locally transmitted, while the rest were imported from abroad, the NHC said on Monday.
City officials announced last week that seven locally transmitted infections had been found among migrant workers in Wuhan, breaking a year-long streak without domestic cases after it squashed an initial outbreak with an unprecedented lockdown in early 2020.
A coronavirus vaccine is prepared at the UK’s first nightclub vaccination centre in Birmingham. Photograph: Jacob King/PA
The UK is on course to “hoard” up to 210m spare coronavirus vaccines by the end of the year, research suggests, as ministers were accused of leaving poorer countries “fighting for scraps”.
Pressure is growing on the government to do more to help nations where tiny proportions of their population have had a first jab given that the UK is opposing a temporary waiver to intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines that would allow more companies abroad to manufacture the doses themselves.
About 467m jabs are due to be delivered to the UK by the end of 2021, data from life science analytics company Airfinity found. However only 256.6m jabs will be needed to fulfil the expected demand of vaccinating all over-16s and giving a booster dose to the most vulnerable in autumn.
Given the average level of take-up for adults who have received a first and second dose stands at just over 80%, if the same level was maintained for those eligible accepting all doses they are offered this year, that would leave a surplus of 210m vaccines. Even if take-up were 100%, the figure would be 186m.
These leftover jabs would help inoculate the about 211 million people living in the world’s 10 least vaccinated countries, said campaign group Global Justice Now, which collated the figures.
Nick Dearden, director of the organisation, told the Guardian it was an “insult to the thousands dying each day” that the UK was offering third doses and preparing to vaccinate teenagers while low- and middle-income countries were left “fighting for scraps”.
He said the issue was compounded by the UK’s efforts to “obstruct” a temporary waiver of intellectual property rights on coronavirus vaccines. The bid was tabled at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in October 2020 by India and South Africa – and has since been backed by countries including the US, France and Italy.
Minutes from the most recent WTO meeting to discuss the proposal concluded that “disagreement persisted on the fundamental question of what is the appropriate and most effective way to address the shortage and inequitable access to vaccines”, with a decision now pushed back until October 2021.
Dearden said the UK was “keeping the global south dependent on donations while hoarding limited vaccine supplies for ourselves” and called it an “obscene injustice”.
The government’s drive to roll out third doses from next month flies in the face of a call by the World Health Organization this week for a moratorium on booster shots in a bid to vaccinate 10% of every country’s population by the end of September. It estimates at least 60-70% of the world needs to be inoculated to reach “global immunity”.
The 10 countries with the smallest proportion of people vaccinated, according to Oxford University’s Our World In Data, are: the Democratic Republic of Congo (0.005%), Haiti (0.003%), Burkina Faso (0.01%), Vanuatu (0.03%), South Sudan (0.04%), Yemen (0.04%), Chad (0.04%), Syria (0.05%), Guinea Bissau (0.06%) and Benin (0.1%).
The situation was akin to “vaccine apartheid”, said Max Lawson, Oxfam’s head of inequality policy. He told the Guardian: “The British government is ignoring the WHO’s advice, issuing booster shots and dogmatically defending vaccine patents. It’s only going to prolong the pandemic, leading to more deaths and, ultimately, to mutations of coronavirus that could undermine the UK’s own vaccination programme.”
Shami Chakrabarti, a former Labour shadow attorney general, said the UK and other wealthy nations “have a responsibility to do all we can to save lives in the global south” but ministers were instead “closing down every avenue for low- and-middle-income countries to access vaccines with sufficient speed and scale”.
“For the government to see such suffering and impede every solution is an utter failure of common decency let alone human rights obligations,” she added.
A government spokesperson said: “The UK is committed to supporting a global recovery to the Covid-19 pandemic and improving access to vaccines.
“We have committed to donate 100m doses by June 2022, with the first deliveries starting last week. On top of this, UK funding is helping to provide more than a billion vaccines to low- and middle-income countries through Covax.”
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· France’s health minister has appealed for volunteer doctors and nurses to travel to the overseas territories of Guadalupe and Martinique as a wave of Covid-19 infections overwhelms hospitals on the two Caribbean islands.
· The UK has recorded 27,429 new coronavirus cases and a further 39 deaths in the latest 24-hour period, bringing the total deaths to 130,321, government figures show.
· Seven more countries have joined the green list from Sunday – and France has left the “amber-plus” list, under widespread changes to the UK’s traffic light system for travel.
· Russia reported 22,866 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, including 2,761 in Moscow, taking the national tally to 6,447,750 since the pandemic began.
· The Philippines’ health ministry recorded 9,671 new coronavirus cases and 287 additional deaths on Sunday, the biggest single-day rise in the country’s death toll since 9 April.
· Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo said the coronavirus outbreak had eased in many parts of the country but remained worrying in the economic capital of Lubumbashi where not wearing a mask will now be punishable by up to seven days in jail.
· Iran reported record new infections and deaths across the country on Sunday , as it grapples with its most severe surge of the coronavirus to date
· Vietnam’s health ministry reported 9,690 coronavirus infections on Sunday, a record daily increase.
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/09/uk-set-to-hoard-up-to-210m-doses-of-covid-vaccine-research-suggests
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